328 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES 



MARIGOLD.— CALDULENA. 



Natural order, Composite. A genus of the 

 Syngenesia Polygamic/, Necessaria class. 



The generic name of Calendula is thought 

 to have originated from its having been ob- 

 served to flower most about the calends of 

 every month. 



" Fair is the Marygold, for pottage meet." Gay. 



The common Marigold, or Calendula offi- 

 cinalis, is a native of the south of Europe, and 

 is said to have been cultivated in this country 

 prior to 1573. Dodoens, whose Herbal was 

 written previous to this date, says the Eng- 

 lish call them Marigolds and Ruds : he ob- 

 serves, they grow in every garden where they 

 have once been sown, as they yearly spring 

 up from the fallen seed. 



We have often seen this plant in situations 

 that have called to mind those lines of 

 Goldsmith, 



u Where once the garden smiled, 



And still where many a garden flower grows wild.' 



